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15 January, 2014

Welcome to our research seminars

On Friday the 24th of January our seminar series begins again here at the Institute for Futures Studies.The four first seminars all touch our research area segregation. Martin Ljung from the Research

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22 October, 2013

IMISCOE 10th Annual Conference: Crisis and Migration

Clara Lindblom from the Institute has participated in IMISCOE:s 10th Annual Confernce in Malmö August 26–27th, presenting results from a study by the Thematic Group on Inclusion in Working Life. The conf and the Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) and the Department of Global Political studies (GPS), Malmö University.

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17 June, 2019

Is risk aversion irrational? Examining the “fallacy” of large numbers

Synthese, doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01929-5 Abstract A moderately risk averse person may turn down a 50/50 gamble that either results in her winning $200 or losing $100. Such behaviour seems rational i

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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04 September, 2020

Recent Debates on Victims' Duties to Resist Their Oppression

Philosophy Compass Abstract This article reviews recent arguments in contemporary political philosophy on victims' duties to resist their oppression. It begins by presenting two approaches to these duti

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26 January, 2021

Moral Realism and the Argument from Skepticism

in International Journal for the Study of Skepticism10 (ISSN: 2210-5697). Abstract:A long-standing family of worries about moral realism focuses on its implications for moral epistemology. The underlyi

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tersman, Folke , & Olle Risberg
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04 February, 2015

David Miller: Boundaries, Democracy and Territory

Professor David Miller, Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. ABSTRACT The paper I will be presenting asks the general question ‘What boundaries between political units ought there to be?’  Reje

Professor David Miller, Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.
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31 March, 2017

Making sense of corruption

Corruption is a serious threat to prosperity, democracy and well-being, with mounting empirical evidence highlighting it detrimental effects on society. Yet defining this threat has resulted in profou

Corruption is a serious threat to prosperity, democracy and well-being, with mounting empirical evidence highlighting it detrimental effects on society. Yet defining this threat has resulted in profound disagreement, which makes it difficult to come to terms with the problem.
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06 September, 2019

Staffan I. Lindberg: V-Dem, the Third Wave of Autocratization, and Studying It using New Methods

Staffan I. Lindberg, Director, V-Dem Institute, Dept. of Political Science, Univ. of GothenburgPrincipal Investigator, Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), Wallenberg Academy Fellow, ERC Consolidator Grant

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24 August, 2020

Björn Åstrand: Equality and equity in Swedish education: policy, practice and historical perspectives

Björn Åstrand, Associate professor at Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Umeå University AbstractEquality and equity in education is since long a key policy priority intern

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20 September, 2021

The EU project Open Days: The AMIF Project "The Subjective Integration 2"

The purpose of this project is to give the  migrants arriving via the organised channels, i.e. quota refugees and family reunion cases information about Sweden before leaving for Sweden. They are inte

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